I have known Dr. Nilanthi for more than 40 years since her marriage to my cousin Frank.Dr. Nilanthi was born in Moratuwa to a middle-class Catholic...
By Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and Development (Part III of this article appeared in The Island yesterday (28 Sept. 2023) President Jayewardene...
by SALIYA WEERAKOON and Prof. ALEX LIN CHEE LOK In 1914, Cambridge-educated D. R Wijewardena, arguably one of the most recognised entrepreneurs in the country, bought...
By Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and Development (First part of this article appeared yesterday) Ten-point Accord for Regime Change arrived at Singapore...
by Jehan Perera The country to which President Ranil Wickremesinghe returned after his international successes in the Americas remains in dire straits. In both Cuba and...
The Lawyers’ Collective condemns the latest version of the Anti-Terrorism Bill and the Online Safety Bill gazetted in September 2023. The Government of Sri Lanka has...
Recently, I have made it a point to listen carefully to dhamma discourses by erudite Bhikkus , very specially on the consumption of meat by Buddhists...
There is much talk at the moment of nuclear power generation for the country. The idea is certainly very good. We do need more energy to...
It was with the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna government of SWRD Bandaranaike that the nationalization programme started with the Ceylon Transport Board being the first. When this...
By Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca A writer using the pseudonym GADS, replying to a previous article regarding Negombo, states (The Island 17 Sept. 2023), “It is also...